Chapter Six – Decision Support Systems to Manage Irrigation in Agriculture *

摘要: Abstract A decision support system (DSS) is an interactive software-based used to help decision-makers compile useful information from a combination of raw data, documents, and personal knowledge; identify solve problems; make optimized decision. The DSS architecture consists the database (or knowledge base), model (i.e., context user criteria), interface. main advantages using include examination multiple alternatives, better understanding processes, identification unpredicted situations, enhanced communication, cost effectiveness, use data resources. application in agriculture environment has been rapidly increased past decade, which allows rapid assessment agricultural production systems around world decision-making at both farm district levels, though constraints exist for successful adoption this technology agriculture. One important applications water management field levels. Agriculture facing more severe growing competition with other sectors freshwater. resources are becoming increasingly insufficient meet demand developing countries their quality declining due pollution inadequate management. Irrigation effective means enhance crop productions, but needs be supplied accurately, taking into account its availability, requirement land size, irrigation systems, productivity feasibility. This chapter attempts present state-of-art principles, design, agriculture, particularly practices, emerging approaches future direction research field.